The Daily Telegraph caps it all with their front page top headline: “UKIP surge puts Labour into poll crisis”. If coming top of the poll in a 4-horse race with 31% of the total votes and on that basis being projected by two separate analyses to gain 322 seats (just 4 short of an overall […]
Posts Tagged ‘Local Elections 2014’
If topping the poll and being projected to win 65 more seats than the Tories is failure, what does success look like?
May 25th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.
Lazy thinking and the election results
May 25th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Some points challenging the avalanche of lazy thinking tumbling off Mt Politics about the local election results. Complacency, part one. UKIP did very well, they won 161 seats. It is very silly, as some do, to bang on about the party having zero MPs and not winning any councils. Outside of London, UKIP have put […]
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Big issue in local elections is not UKIP, but abandonment of white working class
May 24th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.Why is it that UKIP has stormed to 160 seats in the rest of the country, but not in London? It’s because London is by far the most prosperous part of the country and members of the white working class are much more likely to be able to find a job at reasonable pay than […]
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Rotherham election analysis: UKIP win the popular vote in Labour disaster No 1
May 23rd, 2014 by Jon Lansman.The election result in Rotherham declared in the early hours of this morning was a disaster for Labour. UKIP won 10 seats (+9) to Labour’s eleven, but UKIP won the popular vote with 46% compared with 43% Labour, 10% Conservative, and 6% other. It would take a further swing from Labour to UKIP of only 4.5% for it […]
